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Re: BYU
Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2011 2:58 pm
by PoconoPony
Stallion wrote:Texas fans all want the Network and those that have it love it.
I am sure you are correct; however, you have limited you audience and national appeal to only a very limited already existing alum market only. I think as time goes by they lose their national appeal, do not develop new fans and their brand becomes somewhat limited and regionalized.
Re: BYU
Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2011 3:03 pm
by StallionsModelT
Every indication from ESPN is that thus far it has been an absolute disaster. Low subsriber numbers, low ratings, and poor advertising revenue. It was a financial windfall for the University of Texas, but ESPN has taken a bath on that POS.
Re: BYU
Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2011 3:04 pm
by Stallion
Its only 1 or 2 games-but I kind of agree to that extent.
Re: BYU
Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2011 3:27 pm
by Mitch McConnell
Stallion wrote:Texas fans all want the Network and those that have it love it.
You're talking about a finite audience. If ESPN can't jam this thing down cable network's throats, that means they miscalculated the market. There isn't the national appeal that ESPN thought there was because Texas t-shirt fans aren't into what the volleyball or baseball teams are doing.
Look at YES. We're talking about the New York Yankees, arguably the most recognizable sports organization in the world. And they knew blowing it open nationwide was likely not the way to go.
Look at their website. The furthest YES goes is into Scranton-Wilkes Barre PA. -- and that's only because the Yankees' AAA farm team is there.
IMO, this Longhorn Network should have started in the greater Austin area and maybe go as far out as San Antonio and see what kind of response it gets and then expand if the demand followed. This is what happens when ESPN thinks it knows everything and then leads with its chin before it gets it smacked.
BYU
Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2011 4:02 pm
by 2ndandlong
Stlhockeyguy02 wrote:smustatesmen wrote:Roof antennas are sold separately. They of course are roof mounted, and look exactly like a golden statue of Gabriel blowing a horn.
Would you like to buy a satellite channel?

great movie
Re: BYU
Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2011 4:38 pm
by PonyKai
hahaha love that movie. Definitely a cult classic.
Re: BYU
Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2011 4:59 pm
by StallionsModelT
What movie is it?
BYU
Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2011 5:01 pm
by 2ndandlong
Orgazmo
BYU
Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2011 5:02 pm
by smupony94
Baseketball was a horrible movie
Re: BYU
Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2011 5:04 pm
by PonyKai
smupony94 wrote:Baseketball was a horrible movie
Bite your tongue.
Re: BYU
Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2011 5:09 pm
by Kynd Tulsa Phan
This thread makes me very happy.
I wish you guys would just embrace the Superfriends conference. Cougar has shown that you can play a dogcrap schedule and make it to Autobid status...so has Boise...so has Hawaii...so has TCU. The Big East will fall off the map...CUSA will pick up Cinn and USF and the conference will get its own new TV deal.
The MWC/CUSA game will all of a sudden be a really big deal with Boise on one side and whoever CUSA has on the other side.
The AQ is gone after a 7-5 Louisville team (that lost to Marshall bTw) goes to the Orange Bowl.
Butthurt and Proud,
Kynd Friend from Tulsa
Re: BYU
Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2011 5:12 pm
by Mitch McConnell
2ndandlong wrote:Orgazmo
Wasn't the premise of this movie that a Mormon mission person was duped into being in the pron movie and play the superhero to fight space bad guys and .....
Re: BYU
Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2011 5:22 pm
by PonyKai
Yep, pretty much. Worthy of an Oscar.
Re: BYU
Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2011 5:32 pm
by smustatesmen
Siskel and Ebert gave the movie two fists with thumbs up and down, and up and down, and up and down, and etc. Now you know why the balcony was closed. Eeew this seat is all sticky.
Re: BYU
Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2011 5:35 pm
by Mitch McConnell
Stlhockeyguy02 wrote:...fight Ron Jeremy and an evil porn producer.
Hard to compete with that the attack of the killer tomatoes